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actDEN - Really nest software tutorials for the classroom. actDEN currently offers seven software tutorials, produced in conjunction with Microsoft K-12 Education, and seven exciting DEN courses. Each tutorial and online course offers up-to-date information and interactive features that encourage students to learn, think, and participate in the online community.
Buddy Project - Buddy develops and facilitates demonstration projects of leading edge student learning environments for K12 schools using technology in anytime, anywhere settings. Check out the Summer Projects page.
EdTech Technology Professional Development - from the San Diego City Schools Classes - The Educational Technology Department is now publishing presentations on-line that may be useful to your school or department. Feel free to use them for your staff development presentations.
Educational Renaissance Planners was founded by Alan November to promote the effective use of information and communication technologies that support and enhance learning for children and communities. ER Planners includes a team of researchers, writers, and educational leaders who bring a variety of work and educational experiences, skills, and knowledge together.
Educational Software Cooperative ESC is a nonprofit organization whose purposes are to advance the mutual benefit of authors, publishers, dealers and distributors of educational software; to voluntarily cooperate formally and informally with each other to better develop, advertise, distribute and sell educational software; and to provide the public with information regarding the benefits, uses, and availability of educational software.
Educational Software Resources The Education Index was created in 1996 as a service of CollegeView, a software company based in Cincinnati to provide learners and educators with access to the best educational Web sites in a variety of subjects and life stages.
Evaluating Web Pages - This page is organized to combine the two techniques into a process that begins with looking at your search results from a search engine or other source, follows through by investigating the content of page, and extends beyond the page to what others may say about the page or its author(s). Also see Evaluating Web Pages, Why?
Faces of Tomorrow - Faces of Tomorrow is a web-based project which invites youth to submit self images in the form of photos, digital images, drawings, and combinations of media. This project was a part of the first statewide Boston CyberArts Festival that took place May 1-15, 1999. It culminated in a gala opening and exhibition at the Computer Museum in Boston for the Boston Cyberarts Festival from May 1-15, 1999. The project was organized by a committee of teachers, as well as professionals active in the world of nonprofit computer centers. Currently we are producing a resource guide for technology coordinators and instructors who wish to participate in a classroom setting which will include user-friendly instructions, lesson plans, and additional resources in each geographic area. If you are interested in a resource guide, you can download our PDF version from the web site.
Free Skills - This site provides hundreds of free tutorials covering a wide range of computer topics. They also have online courses you can take (for a fee).
Google Search buttons - Try a new searching experience. Google is one of the top search engines and has many additional features such as Google Buttons. Adding Google Browser Buttons to your personal toolbar gives you access to the same search technology available at www.google.com, without taking away from your existing screen space.
Google Pig Latin Search Engine - Trying to find a way to put a spark in the topic of searching? Try the Pig Latin Google search page. You can also search in Klingon ;-p
Hewlett-Packer Education Web Site - lots of goodies here (and they are useful whether you have HP equipment or not). Check out the philanthropy section (where all the good grant and help programs are listed).
Internet Projects Registry - Join an Internet project and collaborate with classrooms from around the world.
The Infosearcher Their cybertours will lead you through different topics.
Innovative Teaching KeyPal References - VERY GOOD RESOURCE
Intel's Education page offers tips, information and educational programs sponsored by Intel for math, science and technology.
Internet Tutorials A great page of technology links for K-12. Created by Michael L. Hall who is part of the Research Program at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, DC.
Ivy West's Internet Research Tools - lots of tips and tools to help you search the Internet.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators:Brush up on the Internet - A series of mini lesson plans for grade four students (adaptable for other grades) which will introduce them to the Internet. There are several lessons which deal specifically with web pages.
Keypal and Telecollaborative Projects - From the American Library Association, tips for successful keypal projects and some places where teachers might post requests for keypals.
The Key to Keypal Success - Tips to help you plan and how to effectively use keypals. From Education World.
The Keypal Club - has over 25,000 registered users. Helps link students and teachers.
The Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for parents and Kids - very good with lots of tips.
PC Technology Guide - handy reference for hardware parts of the computer.
Kids 1st - Check out these articles from Kids 1st, Inc., dedicated to creating tools that integrate technology into the learning process. In our information rich society, a key to learning is the ability to turn information into knowledge, and technology is an essential catalyst of that process. We realize that an educator's time is limited and integrating technology takes time. Our Internet activity kits, curriculum units, and workshops allow educators and students to utilize the power of technology in the learning process efficiently and effectively.
Netsmartz - The NetSmartz Workshop is an educational resource for children of all ages, parents and teachers on how to stay safer on the Internet. Since the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was first established in 1984, it has worked to make children safer. The NetSmartz Workshop was created to address the need for Internet safety education in an unprecedented way. Compaq Computer Corporation has donated $1.5 million to establish an onsite Internet studio at NCMEC. The NetSmartz Workshop features age-appropriate, interactive games and activities that utilize the latest web technologies to entertain while they educate.
Tapped In - TAPPED IN™ is the online workplace of an international community of education professionals. K-12 teachers and librarians, professional development staff, teacher education faculty and students, and researchers engage in professional development programs and informal collaborative activities with colleagues.
Teaching with Technology - Part of the University of Oregon's Teaching Effectiveness Program (TEP), which works with UO educators to assess and improve their teaching. This is a good gem with lots of information on how to incorporate technology elements (from web page design to online assessment) into the classroom. A four star site!
Teach-Nology - TEACH-NOLOGY - The Art and Science of Teaching with Technology represents a vision that embraces the future of teaching in a world driven by technology. Our goal is to actualize this vision by offering a range of services that are designed to assist and support educational agencies in their attempt to develop the knowledge, competencies, or skills that teachers need to effectively incorporate technology in teaching.
Technology Tips - Great list of technology help links, toics range from Internet primers, to web page design for educators to searching the web.
Teoma.com - A new search engine is emerging as a leader in searching. Teoma provides better results because it goes beyond traditional page ranking methods to determine authority, in addition to relevancy. To determine the authority or quality of a site's content, Teoma uses Subject-Specific PopularitySM. Subject-Specific Popularity ranks a site based on the number of same-subject pages that reference it, not just general popularity, to determine a site's level of authority.
webTeacher Has a good introduction to the World Wide Web in the form of a self-paced tutorial. It also contains information on Internet safety, cable modems and educational funding.
Web Awareness - The Internet offers educators tremendous opportunities -- and tremendous challenges. For many Canadian school children, their first online experience will occur in a classroom setting, so it's important for teachers to understand the issues surrounding this exciting new medium. The resources in this section have been created to help teachers provide students with the skills they need to evaluate online information and to protect their privacy and their personal safety as they surf the Net.
Webopedia for the Internet - A great online dictionary/search engine for computer and Internet technology information.
Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians - The most time consuming aspect of setting up a World Wide Web service in a media center is creating and maintaining the documents that make up the site. Get all the tips you need to set up your school's Web site right here!
Xcursion Central - What is an Xcursion? - An Xcursion is a curriculum-rich, teacher-developed Internet field trip. Each Xcursion links to a number of Web sites that are relevant to a specific subject or theme. The Web sites are accompanied by annotations that guide student -learning and assessment.
Converting Image File Types - This article will help you with links to different types of file formats, links to changing file types and more.
Creating Web Pages - www.cln.org/themes/webpages_intro.html - This "Theme Page" has links to two types of resources related to the study of Creating Web Pages. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme. Please read our disclaimer.
Flaming Text - create animated text for your web page without using an expensive, complicated software program.
NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML, from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, is a popular starting point for learning about hypertext markup language (HTML), a computer language used to design documents on the Web.
Web Monkey web builder -This web site is designed to help students build web sites and other projects. It is very easy to use.
Web Page Design for Students - This site was designed as a reference for students.
Email/Virus Information/Hoaxes
AntiViral Toolkit Pro's Computer Virus Encyclopedia - Extensive listings document the "behavior" of computer viruses. Site is searchable by virus name, but can also be browsed (viruses are arranged alphabetically). It is rigorously maintained (we checked it during the "Melissa" E-mail scare and found the site routinely on top of new developments).
Disappearing Email - Disappearing Email automatically manages email content by giving an email's author control over that message—no matter where it's forwarded or saved. The product was designed to meet identified email privacy needs. Disappearing™ Email, analogous to a paper shredder, expires messages according to user or corporate determined schedules.
Museum of Hoaxes - Categorizes hoaxes by time.
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